Cesare Torelli Romano was an Italian painter. He was born in

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, and a pupil of

Giovanni de' Vecchi Giovanni de' Vecchi (1536, Sansepolcro – 1614) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. Born in Borgo San Sepolcro, He first apprenticed with the painter Raffaello del Colle, then with Taddeo Zuccari, whom he assisted in the in ...

. He flourished in the pontificate of

Paul V Pope Paul V ( la, Paulus V; it, Paolo V) (17 September 1550 – 28 January 1621), born Camillo Borghese, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 16 May 1605 to his death in January 1621. In 1611, he honored ...

, and was employed both as a painter and a

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in the library of the

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, and in the

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. He painted two Sibyls in the church of the

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. He died in 1615. A sculptor of the same name was active in late 19th-century

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, specializing in genre statuettes. ''Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti.''
by

Angelo de Gubernatis Count Angelo De Gubernatis (1840–26 February 1913), Italian man of letters, was born in Turin and educated there and at Berlin, where he studied philology. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature fourteen times. Life In 1862 he w ...

. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 520.

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